{"id":68046,"date":"2013-08-28T13:41:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T17:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=68046"},"modified":"2013-08-28T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T19:16:49","slug":"new-athletics-website-bobcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/08\/28\/new-athletics-website-bobcats\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobcat athletics debuts redesigned website, new content management system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A redesigned website for Bobcat athletics, featuring a new content management system, gets its first game-day workout Tuesday night when men&#8217;s soccer takes on Maine Maritime Academy at 8 p.m. under the lights at Garcelon Field.<\/p>\n<p>Coming on the heels of a major redesign of the overall Bates website in 2011, the new Bates athletics website, <a href=\"http:\/\/athletics.bates.edu\"><strong>athletics.bates.edu<\/strong>,<\/a> debuted with a soft launch on Aug. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The site promises better and quicker delivery of what sports fans want: scores and schedules, statistics and roster information, and game stories and video.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_68048\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/athletics.bates.edu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68048\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68048 \" alt=\"The new Bobcat athletics website debuted Aug. 1.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/athletics-website-screen-shot-2013-08-28-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/athletics-website-screen-shot-2013-08-28-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/athletics-website-screen-shot-2013-08-28-600x404.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/athletics-website-screen-shot-2013-08-28.jpg 1334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Bobcat athletics website promises a better and quicker delivery of what sports fans want: scores and schedules, statistics and roster information, and game stories and video.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I think our fans will find the new website very attractive and current, and easier to find the information they&#8217;re looking for,&#8221; said Director of Athletics Kevin McHugh. &#8220;This is clearly a big step in the right direction for Bates athletics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting the rapid growth of smartphones, the site&#8217;s mobile version is similarly well-designed, responsive and easily navigated.<\/p>\n<p>Created in partnership with PrestoSports, the new site takes advantage of membership in the Presto online network, says Sports Information Director Andy Walter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For example, as a Bobcat basketball game is underway in Alumni Gym, real-time updates and results will appear not only on the Bates site but also on nescac.com, d3hoops.com and the athletics websites of opponents who are Presto clients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Further advantages of the new site include better visual presentation of team statistics, a dedicated portal for video content, and easier ways to keep tabs on results and upcoming contests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A redesigned website for Bobcat athletics, featuring a new content management system,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":68048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68046"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68050,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68046\/revisions\/68050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}